This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Nickel Boys, An Orchestra of Minorities, Southern Lady Code, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Seal Press, publisher of Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex–and the Truths They Reveal by Lux Alptraum.

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Books discussed on the show:

Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma

Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood by Maureen Stanton

So Here’s the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut by Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler (Contributor)

Trust Exercise: A Novel by Susan Choi

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

Gingerbread: A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri

The Memory Police: A Novel by Yoko Ogawa and Stephen Snyder

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD, Amelia Nagoski DMA

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

Sing to It: New Stories by Amy Hempel

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Southern Lady Code: Essays by Helen Ellis

All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

What we’re reading:

I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura Philpott

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